Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 37 (2) 2009

Annotation:  Evolution of the Quaternary Environment in the Northwestern Altai Kostenki-4: The Position of Artifacts in Space and Time (the Analysis of the Cultural Layer) Stratigraphic Data on Middle Paleolithic Sites in the Upper Desna Basin Human-made Bedrock Holes (Mortars and Cupmarks) as a Late Natufi an Social Phenomenon Tsaram: A Burial Ground of the Hsiung-nu Elite in Transbaikalia Species Attribution of Hair of the Pazyryk Fur Coat from the Olon-Kurin-Gol-10 Burial Ground, Mongo Shaitanskoye Ozero II: New Aspects of the Uralian Bronze Age Yankovsky Economics: Animal Bones from 1st Millennium BC Settlements in Primorye, Russian Far East “Technical Decoration” of the Tripolye Ceramics On the Interpretation of Central Asian and South Siberian Rock Art Forms of Nomadism and Livestock Management of the Eastern Sayan Buryats in the Late 19th and Early Harvesting of Siberian Pine Nuts in Mountain Shoria: Traditions and Nowadays The Ethnic History of Medieval Novgorod (Based on Craniometric Data) Seliungur Teeth Revisited L.K. Gudkova.   

Species Attribution of Hair of the Pazyryk Fur Coat from the Olon-Kurin-Gol-10 Burial Ground, Mongolia (Based on Morphometric Analysis)

V.I. Molodin, L.A. Prasolova, M.A. Potapov, V.I. Evsikov, H. Parzinger, and D. Tseveendorj.

The analysis of hair from a fur coat found in a Pazyryk burial from Olon-Kurin-Gol-10, the Mongolian Altai, suggests that pelts of various animals were used. Hair from various parts of the coat and from the quiver found at the same burial ground was analyzed both macroscopically and microscopically. The comparison with standard samples of hair from the Zoological Museum of the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology and with published data indicates that the fur came from sable (Martes zibellina L.), red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris L.), and sheep (Ovis aries L.). Also, horse (Equus caballus L.) hair was used in the design. Samples from the quiver contained horsehair and that of deer – apparently reindeer (Rangifer tarandus L.).

Keywords: Mongolia, Olon-Kurin-Gol-10 burial ground, Pazyryk culture, fur clothing, morphometric analysis of animal hair.